Recent content by alectrona2988

i know this could be a very divisive subject among a lot of vintage laptop enthusiasts as it takes away a good amount of the charm from a vintage laptop, but what do yall think of the idea of modern LCD replacements for vintage laptops, especially those whose screens have deteriorated or are...

oh yeah i'm shocked it happened, not something that would ever happen again. i wish that particular machine was in better condition, though.

the macintosh IIsi was a cheaper, low cost alternative to the IIci... so its a bit haphazard in terms of internal design. it's an okay machine and it works for what it is.

no seriously, it happened... several years ago a strip mall that had an electronics store caught fire and when they started tearing it down i quickly came to the rescue of anything that i deemed salvageable

*screams in jealousy, especially with the mac IIs* i actually did find a centris 650 in the ruins of a burnt down electronics store but it was unfortunately beyond all repairs, the only surviving part is a 25mhz full 68040. nice finds, by the way. someday i should go to VCF but i've got way more...

got a powermac 6400 off of ebay, can't wait for it to arrive. also getting a radeon 7000 to flash to a mac ROM and will transfer my g3 upgrade from my 6360 over. its gonna be a killer system 7 machine

you can order the boards with the bottom side passives from JLCPCB with the pick and place files, though you might need to flip the 3 pin diodes near where the ram slot holes are. also you might need to change some of the parts since they don't always have the stock for some parts.

i have a couple of pre-balled 1GHz 7455A chips and i'm thinking i want to get a 2002 eMac and a spare board, and swap one in. also i have a couple of dead G4 cards and the 2002 eMacs and iMac G4s have provisions for L3 cache. pretty sure you can tell what this girl is thinking about doing

+500mhz CPU clock boost, totally worth it /j jokes aside those are nice replacements. while i prefer tantalums i do use electrolytics or anything that still works, mainly from scrap boards. it's a good form of reusing electronic components from otherwise faulty systems, but i don't reuse caps...

make sure you've put the right caps in the right spots, sometimes substituting other values can cause problems. and yeah i'd check the daughterboard, that has a couple of SMD caps that should be replaced. the IIsi notoriously has a very failure prone PSU and unfortunately the caps on those seem...

only reason i have one is because a guy i knew on discord had to clear out his inventory and he had an SE/30 that i bought for the cost of shipping, complete with a rasterops colorboard 264. thats never gonna happen again because it simply won't happen more than once in this day and age.